Comrade Kursky!

N. P. Gorbunov informs me that you refused over the telephone to draft a declaration of civil rights ("a proclamation of fundamental property rights," according to the text of the Politburo resolution of 22/III 364) and that you cited "the cancellation of the retreat."

I am forced to point out to you that such reasoning is mockery and that the obstruction you have shown and continue to show is inadmissible.

I propose that you submit a draft declaration of civil rights to Comrade Tsyurupa within a maximum two-day period, i.e., no later than Monday morning*.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

31/III - 22

copies

First published in 1959

in Lenin Collection XXXVI

Printed from the typescript